On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 02:36:13PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote: > On 7/29/2010 2:24 PM, Jay G. Scott wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> My users have a script like so (sanitized for everyone's sake): >> /usr/ucb/mail -s "a subject" \ >> -r contracts \ >> -c "list o folks"\ >> -b "diff list o folks" \ >> "real recip list" \ >> < some_file >> >> I just switched the machine from sendmail to postfix. >> the "-r contracts" "doesn't work". that is, the "from" says >> contra...@arlut... but the (name) shows the person's name >> (the person running the script). >> >> i don't know what it said for the person's name before, but >> i guess they don't like it. so i gotta. >> >> postfix's sendmail doesn't have a -c (carbon copy) or >> -b (blind carbon copy) equivalent. -f and -F will fix >> the "from" fakery, but the carbon copies are a problem. >> >> mutt will handle ONE carbon and ONE blind carbon, unless >> i'm doing it wrong. i can fake the "from" stuff. >> >> mutt -F honk -s "t11" -c root,r...@inm,gl r...@harvey< /etc/motd >> # nope. >> mutt -F honk -s "t12" -c "root r...@inm gl" r...@harvey< /etc/motd >> # this one tries to send to rootr...@inmgl >> # nope. > > > > > mutt ... -c user1 -c user2 -c user3 ...
yep. that did it. brain fade on my part. thanks. j. > > > -- Jay Scott 512-835-3553 g...@arlut.utexas.edu Head of Sun Support, Sr. System Administrator Applied Research Labs, Computer Science Div. S224 University of Texas at Austin
